BOMBlog’s Word Choice features original works of poetry, fiction, and art. This edition of Word Choice, selected by Peter Moysaenko, features poetry by Joshua Harmon and art by Aaron Gustafson.

Harmon’s plunging, loose-jointed verse assembles here a new-era nature poetry in which the confluence of energies and inscapes powers premonitions of collapse.

from The Soft Path

Brittle maples displaced
me, fenced-off
fragment of

field defaced like
the oscillations of the un-
housed self snowroaded,

winterfered with: an
irruption of red
-polls, the resonant peaks

of the Berkshires and band
-width’s speaking
terms with terrain’s int-

entions, pasture dis-
entitled by imperfectly
grounded wires: and a diesel

engine running a 20%
bio-blend grinds down
-ed trees to chips

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